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To save a friend, the Executioner comes home with a vengeance In a Pittsfield cemetery Mack Bolan looks down at his family plot. A space has been left for him, but Bolan is not yet ready to die. His war against the Mafia has taken him around the globe, and now he is back where it all began-not to avenge his family, but to save a friend. Undercover cop Leo Turrin has spent years climbing the ranks of organized crime, risking his life and his family to help put mobsters behind bars. Now the show more mobsters are about to strike back. The local kingpin suspects a rat in his ranks and is close to sniffin show lessTags
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This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer Title: Savage Fire Series: The Executioner Author: Don Pendleton Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Thriller Pages: 138 Synopsis: Leo Turin is apparently under a kill order from the Mafia and someone knows he's a fed. And someone in the feds is a dirty fink linked to the mafia. If he stays, he dies, if he leaves, he dies. Mack doesn't turn his back on his friends. And if it means killing even more outrageous amounts of show more mafioso, then so much the better. My Thoughts: Really enjoyed this one. The head of the Mafia, whom Mack spared [even while blowing his legs off] a couple of books back, is fighting for what's left of his life and his position. Leo is caught in the crossfire and nobody knows who is fighting for who because of the veil of secrecy the mafia uses. But Bolan won't be stopped. He kills, he destroys and in the process he sets up Leo to a new mafia lord who can feed the Feds even more info. Everyone but the Mafia wins! Man, I love it when the badguys get moyduhed! " show less
Too much talking, plotting, and "intrigue" as Bolan returns to his home town to help his old buddy, Leo. Not much action or fun.
Hopefully this will be the last time Bolan dresses up as a high ranking Mafioso and waltzes behind enemy lines. It's getting old.
Hopefully this will be the last time Bolan dresses up as a high ranking Mafioso and waltzes behind enemy lines. It's getting old.
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Der var sat en kontrakt på Mack Bolans ven Leo, manden, der var både Mafiachef og hemmelig agent for FBI. Morderne var ude, de var mange, men hvem var de, og hvem havde sendt dem?
Pludselig var Hævneren midt i virvar af hektiske intriger og voldsomme ildkampe, og han forstod intet - indtil ...
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Der var sat en kontrakt på Mack Bolans ven Leo, manden, der var både Mafiachef og hemmelig agent for FBI. Morderne var ude, de var mange, men hvem var de, og hvem havde sendt dem?
Pludselig var Hævneren midt i virvar af hektiske intriger og voldsomme ildkampe, og han forstod intet - indtil ...
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Don Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 12, 1927. During World War II, on December 7, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Radioman First Class until November of 1947. He served in all the war theaters, receiving various medals. He received his GED while in the Navy. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean conflict, he show more returned to active service for two years. He was employed as a telegrapher for Southern Pacific Railroad until 1957. For the next four years, he worked for the CAA/FAA as an air traffic control specialist. In 1961, his career turned toward aerospace engineering where he served in management positions during Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs, as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program, and with the United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy program. He began writing in 1957 and his first short story was published that year, followed by a first novel in 1961. He became a full-time author in 1967. After producing a number of short stories, westerns, science fiction and mystery novels, in 1969, he launched the Executioner series. The first Executioner novel, War Against the Mafia, was followed by an additional 37 books during the ensuing 12 years. In 1980, he franchised his Executioner characters to Harlequin's Worldwide Library of Toronto, Gold Eagle Imprint. Until his death, he served as Consulting Editor on the Gold Eagle Program, although was not directly responsible for any of the Mack Bolan novels written since 1981. Their team of writers have produced close to 400 novels based on Pendleton's original works and use his names as a house pseudonym. He also published six books about a psychic detective named Ashton Ford and six books about a private detective named Joe Copp. In 1990, he turned to nonfiction with the publication of To Dance with Angels, written with his wife, Linda Pendleton. His nonfiction books include three manuscripts published posthumously as ebooks: A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet, The Metaphysics of the Novel: The Inner Workings of a Novel and a Novelist, and Whispers from the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness. A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent Ebooks Award for the Best of Nonfiction in 2002. In 1992, he received the Lifetime Achievement Gem Award presented by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. He died of a heart attack on October 23, 1995 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Savage Fire
- Original publication date
- 1977-03
- People/Characters
- Mack Bolan; Harold 'Hal' Brognola; Al Weatherbee; Leo Turrin
- Important places
- Massachusetts, USA; Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
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